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Kitchening
14/3/09 16:02I believe that a person can live comfortably in 600 square feet. Graciously, even, provided those square feet are well-designed.
One thing has bugged me since I moved into my comfortable little 600-square foot house, years ago: about ten percent of the space in here is absolutely wasted. That ten percent could be the dining area I've never had, and recapturing it would make the difference between comfortable and gracious.
That's what my "kitchen remodel in a weekend" is all about. The kitchen needs to shrink so the living room can expand to hold a dinner table and four chairs.
But here's the problem: for the kitchen to be smaller, dammit, I need appliances and fixtures on a European scale, not "family-sized" American ones. Why does it cost a freakin' fortune to live in a smaller space? Why does a 24" refrigerator cast twice as much as a 36" one?
But I soldier on.
( Progress. )
One thing has bugged me since I moved into my comfortable little 600-square foot house, years ago: about ten percent of the space in here is absolutely wasted. That ten percent could be the dining area I've never had, and recapturing it would make the difference between comfortable and gracious.
That's what my "kitchen remodel in a weekend" is all about. The kitchen needs to shrink so the living room can expand to hold a dinner table and four chairs.
But here's the problem: for the kitchen to be smaller, dammit, I need appliances and fixtures on a European scale, not "family-sized" American ones. Why does it cost a freakin' fortune to live in a smaller space? Why does a 24" refrigerator cast twice as much as a 36" one?
But I soldier on.
( Progress. )